Week 9

Deliverables

• Lab 8 report
• Final project proposal

References

• Skeletal Bone Animation and Skinning with Collada Models in XNA
• Chapter 5: Improving Managed Code Performance
• Managed Code Performance on Xbox 360 for XNA: Part 1 - Intro and CPU
• Managed Code Performance on Xbox 360 for XNA: Part 2 - GC and Tools
• The cost of value types in .NET Compact Framework
• Part 3: Using Threads
• Thread.SetProcessorAffinity Method
• Chapter 15. Measuring .NET Application Performance

Lab 9

Select and complete one or more XNA tutorials that are relevant to your final project.

Assignment 9

No assignment 9; focus effort on final project.

Classroom Discussion

• State-Effect Pattern
• Optimization
• Threading
• Audio programming with XAct
• Vector Force
• How we modified Vector Force to run at 60 FPS on XBox 360

Try-catch blocks are expensive when an exception is thrown, so omit them if exceptions are thrown as a matter of business in the simulation loop.